i think in the area of earned income tax credit, there might be some overlap. but in general the republican approach will be very different, i think. i think they'll look at the range of programs aimed at helping the poor and say a lot of these programs have been created without any relationship or understanding of how they interact with the others and create large disincentives to work when you stack them all together. lots of studies have shown when you pay someone a benefit and withdraw it when the earnings rise, in a sense you provide add disincentive for people to move up the wage ladder. so you stack all these things together and some people are losing 80% or more of their additional earnings when they get a better-paying job. i think republicans are working hard at that in trying to get the work incentives right. >> woodruff: to bore in for a sect on the earned income tax credit, what's the point at which you see the two sides coming together? >> there's two possibilities. you could do improvements expansion of the earned income credit as part of biparti